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"I have just risen from a conversation which has made a deep impression on my mind."Work: Anna St. Ives: A Novel.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23694
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23694"That frequently happens; and when once a false idea is impressed, it is very difficult to erase it, particularly at your age; as you are not yet capable of distinguishing the false from the true."Work: The Conversations of Emily [Conversations d'Émilie]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17967
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/17967"The emotion betrayed by Schedoni, on the appearance of the last witness, and during the delivery of the evidence, disappeared when his fate became certain, and when the dreadful sentence of the law was pronounced, it made no visible impression on his mind."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20367
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20367"It was not, however, immediately that he could convince himself the appearance was more than the phantom of his dream, strongly impressed upon an alarmed fancy."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20363
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20363"Nor did those particular circumstances accord, as he was inclined to believe, with the manner of a being of this world; and, when Vivaldi considered the suddenness and mystery with which the stranger had always appeared and retired, he felt disposed to adopt again one of his earliest conjectures...Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20361
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20361"The officials had brought him, in obedience to the customary orders they had received, within hearing of those doleful sounds for the purpose of impressing upon his mind the horrors of the punishment, with which he was threatened, and of inducing him to confess without incurring them."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20359
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20359"Yet the simplicity and energy of truth failed to impress conviction on minds, which, no longer possessing the virtue themselves, were not competent to understand the symptoms of it in others."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20358
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20358"He bade her, as she valued her existence, watchfully to preserve the secret of her birth; and to waste not a single day at Villa-Altieri, but to retire to La Pietà ; and these injunctions were delivered in a manner so solemn and energetic, as not only deeply to impress upon her mind the necessit...Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20353
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20353"In this confidence, however, Ellena did not perfectly coincide; she had observed the man while he loaded the trombone, on Schedoni's order, and his evident reluctance, had almost persuaded her, that he was in league with some person who designed to attack them; a conjecture, perhaps, the most re...Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20349
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20349"The stillness was not less effectual than the gloom, for no sounds were heard, except such as seemed to characterize solitude, and impress its awful power more deeply on the heart--the hollow dashing of torrents descending distantly, and the deep sighings of the wind, as it passed among trees wh...Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20348
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